We are pleased to announce DCASE2018 Challenge opened. Task descriptions are now available and most of the tasks have released their development datasets. The baseline systems will be released in 1-2 weeks depending on task.

Release status

Task	Task description	Development dataset	Baseline system
Task 1, Acoustic Scene Classification	Released	Released	Released
Task 2, General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels	Released	Released	Released
Task 3, Bird Audio Detection	Released	Released	TBA
Task 4, Large-scale weakly labeled semi-supervised sound event detection in domestic environments	Released	Released	Released
Task 5, Monitoring of domestic activities based on multi-channel acoustics	Released	Released	Released

updated 11.05.2018